Mixed bag

[dkeg]

#1 - purge thunar
#2 - use ranger, or vifm, or mc
#3 - honestly, I do 99.9% of all file management with simple terminal commands now


And wow, look at the activity on the IRC. Great to see.

And great scrot. Just before the one I posted before, my desktop was very similar; dark on light

[kexolino]

^ Did just that; endless color tweaking begins :)

[bones]

Slow day at work, finally got around to configuring X in OpenBSD. I played around with twm and cwm, but wasn't happy with anything I've come up with yet. Struggling a bit with ksh vs. bash. Decided to bloat it up with xfce. And so...

[dkeg]

^ cwm can be a challenge to get going, at least it was for me. Since not a lot of users out there, adds to the challenge of finding ideas to work from.

Feel free to snag one of my config's off github.

[bones]

^I'll probably give that a shot tomorrow, Drew, thanks!

[machinebacon]

twm is great IMO, do you know this: http://www.custompc.plus.com/twm/twmrc.htm

Don't give up :)

[bones]

^Ahhh, bacon, yes! I just discovered that today! I'm really beginning to appreciate twm, the default WM of Xorg. It's actually very easily configurable, in a single file, just like jwm. Between twm and cwm, I'm sure I'll come up with something I can live with.

[pidsley]

Nice work with BSD. I love twm. There is a .twmrc on my github if you want to try it.

It has alt-tab window cycling and some handy keybinds, and it looks like this:



But you're right -- twm is easy to configure and very well documented, so I'm sure you can figure something out for yourself.

[bones]

^That is very nice, thanks pids.

[machinebacon]

We had twm in "Sauce" and I have been using it for quite a while - it's a decent window manager, even though not the most modern one. I'd be happy to respin twm again for an own 'light' release (no gtk) with a config chooser :)

[bones]

^Yes, I say go for it.

[ivanovnegro]

Oh yeah Bacon. Great idea.

[GekkoP]

Thanks to DebianJoe, I now have clfswm compiled with sbcl and running nicely.

Compared to cwm, RAM usage almost doubled though.

[pidsley]

Tiny with upstart as init and systemd udev.



More mad science experiments are planned. Stay tuned.

[machinebacon]

Good idea. And it *does* work well, and it *does* not drive the user into complete disorientation. Thanks pidsley for the proof.

[DebianJoe]

@Gekko: lisp is an inferior language for memory efficient wm's, and being extensible does not make up for initial design oversights. (Note: I can hear an "I told you so," even if it's never said.) There is a reason that 9 out of 10 wms are written in C or C++.
@Pidsley: That doesn't look anything like Mir and Unity. :D

[GekkoP]

^ since I'm a total newbie with Common Lisp I'll wait to know more about it before digging through clfswm source. It's running on my Aspire with 640MB of RAM, so 50MB make a difference in this case.
There has to be a reason to use this wm. Otherwise, why is xaos so happy with it? :)

[machinebacon]

:)

Something fresh for the weekend.

[wuxmedia]

sexy.

[GekkoP]

^^ very nice